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Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.
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Hilary Heath
- Isabella Linton
- (as Hilary Dwyer)
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- TriviaOliver Reed briefly sought the lead role.
- GoofsAfter Cathy has died Heathcliff at her grave site can't bear it and pounds his head against the nearby tree. As he runs his fingers down the tree you can see that that bark is made of perhaps rubber.
- Quotes
Nellie: It's for god to punish the wicked.
Heathcliff: Why should god have all the satisfaction?
- Crazy creditsAfter a funeral scene, the opening credits appear in blue letters on a background of darkened, almost silhouette like, Yorkshire moor landscapes, scenes which appear again later in the film.
- Alternate versionsA video released in the UK in the '80s ran only 80 minutes and was rated 'U', but the 2003 submission was the full 100 minute version and rated 'PG'
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Untold Truth of James Bond (2020)
- SoundtracksI Was Born in Love With You
(uncredited)
Words by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Music by Michel Legrand
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Not as good as the '39 version, but I prefer it anyway.
Several people have mentioned the music from this film, and for good reason. This was one of a handful of extraordinary scores by the largely forgotten Michel Legrand (THREE MUSKATEER 1974; SUMMER OF '42, BRIAN'S SONG, among others), and is one of my favorite twenty or so film scores ever. This movie, well-photographed as it was, simply reeks of Gothic atmosphere in great part because of this music. Passionate, sensual, beautiful, and tremendously dramatic, it was even released as a record album in 1970 by the short-lived American International Records Label and, unfortunately, has never been made available on CD. It would be worth a purchase on eBay! I also feel that, while Dalton as Heathcliff is by no means in the same acting league as Sir Laurence Olivier, his passion for Calder-Marshall (who is less effective as Cathy than was Merle Oberon) is nonetheless more urgent and less studied than Oliver's was in the '39 version.
I enjoy the original film for its moody black and white imagery and its fine romantic score (by Alfred Newman, also not available on CD); but, though it's admittedly a lesser film, by a small margin I prefer this 1970 take which, without Legrand's evocative scoring, would probably have been a bust.
I enjoy the original film for its moody black and white imagery and its fine romantic score (by Alfred Newman, also not available on CD); but, though it's admittedly a lesser film, by a small margin I prefer this 1970 take which, without Legrand's evocative scoring, would probably have been a bust.
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- Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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- Blubberhouses, Otley, North Yorkshire, England, UK(on location)
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